ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung
Ecosystems of Hope: Global Mangrove Alliance publishes latest “Report on State of the World’s Mangroves 2022”
29/09/2022 | One hundred authors from around the world – among them ZMT’s Martin Zimmer – have joined forces to pool their knowledge and research findings for the second annual report on the State of the World’s Mangroves. Under the auspices of the Global...
Research Mile at Bremen's Weser
26/09/2022 | At the weekend, science was the main focus at the banks of the river Weser in Bremen. ZMT and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI), joined forces to present part of their work at the Research Mile which is held every year in the...
Bremen climate tram honoured with communication award: ZMT scientist Nils Moosdorf accepts the award on behalf of the project
20/09/2022 | The communication concept of the Bremen Climate Tram was awarded the "Eunice Foote Prize" at the K3 Congress on Climate Communication in Zurich on 15 September 2022. The prize, endowed with 4,000 euros, recognises people, initiatives, projects or...
Stable or unstable? How researchers calculate the equilibrium of an ecosystem
12/09/2022 | The challenges of the 21st century require systems thinking and modelling at regional and global scales, for example with regard to weather extremes, marine heat waves, global change-induced impacts on tropical coasts and their communities, coral...
Integrated Earth System Research Conference 2022
12/09/2022 | This first-ever conference on ‘Integrated Earth System Research’ is dedicated to scientific advances towards a coherent understanding of the increasing human impacts on the Earth system, their societal consequences, and respective governance...
ZMT at Climate Academy of Hochschule Bremerhaven
06/09/2022 | Coral reefs are valuable marine habitats. Their great biodiversity is comparable to that of the tropical rainforest. According to estimates, they are home to around one million different creatures and are an important economic sector for many...
Ship recycling in Bremen - an idea gains momentum
01/09/2022 | At the beginning of the year, Bremen's daily newspaper Weser-Kurier published a commentary by Raimund Bleischwitz on the topic of "Ship recycling as Climate protection - Made in Bremen", which explained why Bremen would be a very suitable location...
Deadline extended to September 10: Apply now to the summer school "Generating impact in complex natural resource contexts"
29/08/2022 | The call for applications is now open for this summer school organised by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in collaboration with the Leibniz Research Network “Knowledge for Sustainable Development”, the project LeNa Shape...
Lionfish on the loose: Predatory species invades shallow habitats off the Brazilian coast
Professor Marcelo Soares from the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil is an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Reef Systems group at ZMT. For his publication on the invasion of lionfish (Pterois spp.) in the South Atlantic he worked together...
Call for Papers: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) 2022
04/08/2022 | The Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) is back. After a pandemic-induced break the event will take place on November 2 and 3, 2022 at the GIGA in Hamburg. The aim of LEADS is to foster interdisciplinary exchange and stimulate...